fivemmvegemite

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whats your best nickname for Garmin’s Training status? Most recent one I heard was “Magic 8 Ball Garmin”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thats damn logical. Will give it a go. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They’re all just as shit. I broke a glass jar last time one of them broke on me.

On a related note, one of my endless todo items is to figure out a decent way to store them in the back of the car. My thought atm is to get some sort of flat, wide elastic strap and secure it to a corner of the boot, and then just kind of mush them all together in the elastic strap.

I’ve tried the car boot organisers. Their shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fascinating read, and it reinforces the notion that nothing changes by accepting the status quo and letting issues pass that you don’t agree with. I’ve seen this play out in jobs I’ve worked in, in smaller fashion. There is always the one person who seems like a pita who always asks the questions or points out the inconsistencies when some decision is handed down by mgmt. Without those people then nothing changes for the better.

Its a fine line to tread, and it will be great to see what difference Jonathan makes going forward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll take a look! 2x runs in a day sounds like a good way to get around that limit, although that would require finding the time to do 2x runs in a day :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, that makes sense. I’ve only intermittently been doing intervals. I’ll try to make them a more regular part of my runs and see how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What a great introspective.

I did a z2 run the other day in a 35C dry heat. For me, z2 is 130 - 135 HR, and I ended up with an avg pace of 8:00/km or worse.

Also, I’ve been told there’s some downsides to doing training runs that go much over 2 hours - which limits the distance you can reasonably run. Unless you either pick up the pace (and therefore your HR) or your pace naturally increases while keeping your HR low.

How does someone start getting their body used to longer distances to train for a full marathon, doing z2 runs? It doesn’t compute, so I guess to train for that I’d have to start doing 25-30km z2 runs, going for 3hrs or more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, he’s a disgrace. Sadly, considering he has been re-elected in the past despite worse behaviour, I expect this will be celebrated in his electorate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Comfortably leading the race as she entered the last 12 miles, her vision began clouding from the periphery. Temporary distorted vision isn't unheard of in ultra-running; the stress of running so hard and long can mean the body struggles to refresh the fluid in the eyeball as usual. It is a condition known as corneal edema. But Dauwalter's case was particularly severe. As she continued towards the finish line, it worsened until she was effectively 90% blind.

Dauwalter made it to the aid station, but instead of dropping out, she used a volunteer to guide her by narrating the terrain as they ran. A battered and bleeding Dauwalter crossed the finish line - the first woman to do so that day - in 20 hours 38 minutes 09 seconds,, external with her vision returning to normal five hours later.

Wtaf. That is freaking amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair!! Ya gotta work up to it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I respectfully disagree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t check it often, but it looks like my resting is about 52 bpm. I’ve set my max HR at 175 which is just back of napkin math for a 45yo male.

For running, I have 4 rough bands I keep to.

  • 127 - 135 bpm - low zone 2
  • 135 - 142 bpm - high zone 2 / low zone 3
  • 142 - 150 bpm - zone 3
  • 150 - 163 - zone 4

For any particular run, I’ll pick a hr zone and stick to that, pace be damned. Over the course of a year, I saw a gradual decrease in pace for each of those zones. Most of my “running” is in the first 2 bands.

Specific numbers to back that up:

  • Low z2 went from 8:23 to 6:24
  • High z2 / low z3 went from 7:20 to 6:10
  • Z3 went from 6:45 to 5:30

Hope that helps someone find a reference. I know thats not really fast; there’s a lot of bloggers, youtubers etc that are so much faster. I know I will never get to that point. I think its worthwhile sharing these stats so others can see its ok to not be running 4:30 and below on the regular.

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